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Transforming broadband

Marking a milestone in the broadband industry

For 25 years, Calix has been on a mission to transform society one community at a time. This is a result of the hard work our customers are driving to close the digital divide and transform their communities.

Calix Headquarters in San Jose, California with "25 years" over it

Our history of innovation, growth, and customer successes

Over the years, we've consistently helped broadband service providers, of all sizes, to simplify operations, engagement, and service, innovate for their consumer, business, and municipal subscribers, and grow their business and the communities they serve.

Innovation

The world’s only end-to-end broadband platform with award-winning managed services

Growth

In the 1% of start-ups who reach revenue of $1 billion

Customers

Re-shaping their businesses and the communities they serve

Calix history

Calix’s story of transforming an industry

This is the story of two individuals, their colleagues, and the business that they collectively transformed: Carl Russo, a visionary founder who clearly saw a market disruption, Michael Weening, a CEO who became his partner on the journey, and an entire team that, working together, orchestrated a company-wide reimagining of the entire enterprise. This transformation has enabled our customers—broadband service providers of all types—to reshape their businesses to address a once-in-a-generation opportunity to better their communities.

Milestones

Milestones of progress of growth, culture and transformation

Explore how Calix has evolved over 25 years of innovation and transformation. Discover the highlights of our journey as we have helped our customers simplify, innovate, and grow.

celebrating our customers

Our success isn’t possible without our customers

Born from the idea that stronger networks create stronger communities, Calix’s roots run deep in our customer relationships and their unwavering commitment to providing safe, secure and reliable broadband connectivity for underserved communities worldwide. As Calix celebrates 25 years, we are truly celebrating our customers and their successes.

A leader in sustainability

ALLO Fiber is leading the broadband industry with their visionary green strategy supported by the Calix Broadband Platform. The platform’s unique network architecture resulted in as much as a 73 percent reduction in power consumption. ALLO’s vision aligns with Calix’s commitment to a sustainable business future all. 

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Elevating the local economy

Gibson Connect is elevating their communities and local economies, transforming the 13th poorest region in the U.S. by installing a new fiber network by leveraging the power of the Calix Broadband Platform and cloud services. This partnership has had a major impact on education, business, jobs and the regional economy. 

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Transforming the community

Tombigbee Fiber is transforming their business and rural communities with the Calix Broadband Platform. They leverage a community-wide SmartTown™ network, granting first responders free access to secure and reliable Wi-Fi. They integrate Bark, Calix’s AI-enabled social media monitoring tool to protect from cyberbullying and are achieving an astounding NPS of 91! 

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REFLECTING ON SUCCESS

We’re proud of what we’ve achieved, and we’re just getting started.

As we celebrate 25 years, we're sharing thoughts from our executive leadership team on Calix’s evolution and future in the broadband industry. 

Happy family with modern devices and dog having fun, playing at home
Sep 19, 2024 | 2 min
Aerial view of residential neighborhood with wifi signal concept
Sep 17, 2024 | 2 min
Urban planner designing a sustainable city model
Sep 11, 2024 | 2 min